English practice. A writ issued out of the C. P. commending the sheriff to compel the appearance of a jury in the cause between the parties. It answer...
remedies A writ of habeas corpus is an order in writing, signed by the judge who grants the same, and sealed with the seal of the court of he is a jud...
conveyancing. This is a Latin word, which signifies to have. 2. In conveyancing, it is that part of a deed which usually declares what estate or inte...
A dealer in miscellaneous goods and merchandise....
To have. This word is used in composition....
h. t....
practice, remedies. The name of a writ of execution, used in most real actions, by which the sheriff is directed that he cause the demandant to have s...
practice. The name of a writ which lies when a view is to be taken of lands and tenements., F. N. B. Index, verbo View....
A disposition or condition of the body or mind acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. See 2 Mart. Lo. Rep. N. S. 622. 2. The ha...
civil law. It was the right of a person to live in the house of another without prejudice to the property. 2. It differed from a usufruct in this, th...
estates. A dwelling-house, a home-stall. 2 Bl. Com. 4; 4 Bl. Com. 220. Vide House....
A person given to ebriety or the excessive use of intoxicating drink, who has lost the power or the will, by frequent indulgence, to control his appet...
Customarily, by habit. or frequent use or practice, or so frequently, as to show a design of repeating the same act. 2 N. S. 622: 1 Mart. Lo. R. 149. ...
Engl. law.A recompense or amends made for violence offered to a person in holy olders....
The children or descendants of the deceased. Dalr. Feud. Pr. 110; Spellm. Remains....
The kinsmen other than children or descendants; Dalr. Feud. Pr. 110; Spellm. Remains....
An inheritance, or an estate which descends to one by succession. At common law an inheritance never ascends, haereditas nunquam ascendit. But in many...
This is said of an inheritance which is not taken by the heirs, but remains in abeyance....
civil law. An heir, one who succeeds to the whole inheritance. 2. These are of various kinds. 1. Haeres natus, an heir born; the heir at law: he is d...
One equal part of a thing divided into two parts, either in fact or in contemplation. A moiety. This word is used in composition; as, half cent, half ...
parentage, kindred. When persons have only one parent in common, they are of the half-blood. For example, if John marry Sarah and has a son by that ma...
Persons who have the same father but different mothers; or the same mother but different fathers....
money. A copper coin of the United States, of the value of one two-hundredth part of a dollar, or five mills. It weighs eighty-four grains. Act of Jan...
pleading. It is the peculiar form of a defence, which is as follows, "venit et defendit vim et injuriam, et dicit," &c. It differs from full defence. ...
money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one- twentieth part of a dollar, or five cents. It weighs twenty grains and five-eighths of...
money. A silver coin of the United States of the value of fifty cents. It weighs two hundred and six and one-fourth grains. Of one thousand parts, nin...
money. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of five dollars. It weighs one hundred and twenty-nine grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundr...
semiplena probatio, civil law. Full proof is that which is sufficient to end the controversy, while half proof is that which is insufficient, as the f...
A seal used in the English chancery for the sealing of commissions to delegates appointed upon any appeal, either in ecclesiastioal or marine causes....
In the computation of time, a half year consists of one hundred and eighty-two days. Co. Litt. 135 b; Rev. Stat., of N. Y. part 1, c. 19, t. 1. 3....
A public building used either for the meetings of corporations, courts, or employed to some public uses; as the city hall, the town hall. Formerly thi...
med. jur. It is a species of mania, by which "an idea reproduced by the memory is associated and embodied by the imagination." This state of mind is s...
The name of a court among the Saxons. It had civil and criminal jurisdiction....
Scotch law. The crime of hamesucken consists in "the felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house." 1 Hume, 312; Burnett, 86; Alis...
Eng. law. A small village; a part or member of a vill....
Eng.law. This is the name of one of the offices belonging to the English court of chancery. 3 Bl. Com. 49....
That part of the human body at the end of the arm. 2. Formerly the hand was considered as the symbol of good faith, and some contracts derive their n...
A printed or written notice put up on walls, &c., in order to inform those concerned of something to be done....
contracts. Anciently, among all the northern nations, shaking of hands was held necessary to bind a bargain; a custom still retained in verbal contrac...
evidence. Almost every persons handwriting has something whereby it may be distinguished from the writing of others, and this difference is sometimes ...
punishment. Death by the halter, or the suspending of a criminal, condemned to suffer death, by the neck, until life is extinct. A mode of capital pun...
The name usually given to a man employed by the sheriff to put a man to death, according to law, in pursuance of a judgment of a competent court, and ...
An old word which signifies to catch; as, "to hap the rent," to hap the deed poll." Techn. Dict. h. t....
A place where ships may ride with safety; any navigable water protected by the surrounding country; a haven. (q. v.) It is public property. 1. Bouv. I...
d such like employments....
A stag or male deer of the forest five years old complete....
mar. law. The name of a small duty paid to the captain and mariners of a ship, usually called primage. (q. v.)...
A place calculated for the reception of ships, and so situated, in regard to the surrounding land, that the vessel may ride at anchor in it in safety....
Persons going from place to place with goods and merchandise for sale. To prevent impositions they are generally required to take out licenses, under ...
civil law. When the performance of that which is one of its objects, depends on an uncertain event, the contract is said to be hazardous. Civ. Co. of ...
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